Saying grace before meals with extended family - looking for some ideas

[Anonymous]

I believe that a prayer is a conversation with God, and that He values sincerity over formality. I don’t think any prayer is lame, as long as it comes from your heart, but if your focus is on impressing other people, you’ve missed the point entirely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the food before us, the friends beside us, and the love among us.

As an atheist, I would just change the words at the beginning: "We appreciate (or 'We are thankful for') the food before us,....etc......" because we are the ones who prepared the food, or bought it.